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| | RAW format disk My computer system is Window VISTA Ultimate version. The hard disk of my notebook was not enough, so I bought 160GB Samsung hard disk which separate two division, one is 60GB and the other is 100GB, and connect by USB. Someday, it just doesn't work. At first, I think hard disk was dead and then I found I could see the device but it didn't have any data. I saw the format was RAW, not NTFS. What can I do? How to save my important data? |
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| | Re: RAW format disk If it says your drive is RAW, then it needs to be Formatted!! I don't know know how you partioned the drive. BUT it Must be REFORMATTED if it reads RAW. Hope this will help you. James" <sulliveno@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23aZK$ZCIIHA.5160@xxxxxx Quote: > My computer system is Window VISTA Ultimate version. The hard disk of my > notebook was not enough, so I bought 160GB Samsung hard disk which > separate two division, one is 60GB and the other is 100GB, and connect by > USB. Someday, it just doesn't work. At first, I think hard disk was dead > and then I found I could see the device but it didn't have any data. I saw > the format was RAW, not NTFS. What can I do? How to save my important > data? |
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| | Re: RAW format disk James wrote: Quote: > My computer system is Window VISTA Ultimate version. The hard disk of my > notebook was not enough, so I bought 160GB Samsung hard disk which > separate two division, one is 60GB and the other is 100GB, and connect > by USB. Someday, it just doesn't work. At first, I think hard disk was > dead and then I found I could see the device but it didn't have any > data. I saw the format was RAW, not NTFS. What can I do? How to save my > important data? system - XP or Linux for example. If you can read the data, copy it off either to that computer's hard drive or burn to CD/DVD-R. Then take the drive back to your Vista machine and format it. Restore the data to it from your backups. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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